Guanajuato is a beautiful city, although that beauty was born from colonial extraction. The Spanish found the area to be chock-full of gold and silver deposits, so they founded Guanajuato in 1559 as a...

In my very first Analog Nomad Dispatch, from Guanajuato, Mexico, I wrote a bit about local hero El Pípila, a miner who helped Father Hidalgo’s mob break through Spanish defenses in one of the first ba...

It’s been a couple of weeks since I left the city of Guanajuato, the eponymous capitol of the State of Guanajuato in Mexico (and over a month since I’d arrived). My film photos have taken a while in d...

A Photo Essay - Crossing the United States on Interstate 80 The US television journalist Charles Kuralt hosted a travel segment on CBS News that ran for twenty-five years in the second half of the 20...

It’s strange, when traveling, to be wrestling with thoughts of stagnation. Travel, even slow travel, centers on movement and the thrills that come with it—discovery, adventure, novelty. We travelers t...

In my first post here on The Analog Nomad, I showed off some pictures I took on the train using a half-frame film camera. Well, September 5 is World Half-Frame Photography Day - so I thought I’d post ...

So much of the typical traveling experience seems rushed to me. Maybe you’ve been in a situation where your time is limited in a destination and you find yourself taking photos or videos with your pho...

Film photography while traveling appeals to me for lots of reasons: the aesthetic of the final image, the presence and attention required by the process of taking a useable photograph, the conversatio...

In early July of 2026, I took Amtrak’s Coast Starlight from Oakland to Salinas, and then Salinas to Los Angeles. I’d brought a few cameras with me, and the one I chose to use on this trip was a Kodak ...

The Analog Nomad is the online travel journal of writer and photographer J. Mark Tebben. It’s a slow-travel blog, emphasizing tangible experiences including film photography, books, typewriters, live ...